As of September 2013, 63 percent of the federal civilian
workers who earned a least $100,000 in 2013 were men, CNSnews.com
reports. In all, 474,630 federal workers earned at least a six-figure salary
last year - 300,221 men and 174,409 women.

Women outnumber men in the earning brackets below $39,999,
the report shows, while men outnumber women in jobs paying an annual salary of
$40,000 or more.

That's not the only bad news for female feds.

Since 1998, the first year included in the OPM database, the
percentage of women in the federal workforce earning $100,000 or more has shown an increase. The rate of increase has dropped during the Obama administration,
however.

The percentage of women earning a salary of at least
$100,000 increased from 35 percent to 37 percent from September 2009 to
September 2013, an average yearly increase of 0.7 percent. That's behind the
rate of growth from September 2001 to September 2008, when it saw an average
yearly increase of 1.53 percent.

Male or female, federal workers with security clearances
earn more in the private sector

A report by Clearancejobs.com shows government employees
with security clearances earn $86,218 on average. "Independent consultants"
with clearances make more than $114,000 while cleared contractors earn slightly
less than $100,000 a year.

The salaries for federal employees with clearances are still
about $16,000 higher than their military counterparts.

If you do want to stay in federal service but want to earn
more, you might want to consider the National Reconnaissance Office, CIA,
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or Defense
Intelligence Agency. Those agencies paid cleared employees the most with NRO at
the top of the list.

Security-cleared workers at the NRO, which designs, builds,
and operates U.S. government spy satellites, earn an
average of $117,258.